TRW v1.10 by John Leschak                Registration $ 20.00
WORD JUN91 LESCHAK TEXT REPORT WRITER ASCII DELIMITED
FILES: trw110.sdn

New Release

The  Text  Report  Writer  v1.10  allows you to create custom
reports and conversions if delimited, BASIC, and fixed length
ASCII text files. This utility is completely dependent on DOS
redirection  and  pipe commands and offers no user interface.
The  utility  will more than likely be most valuable to those
who  work  often  with text files and text file reformatting,
for  which this program is most flexible.  Also included is a
simple program which  generates  report definition files very
easily with a good (not great) user interface. Although it is
very  thourough,   it  still  requires  the  user have a good
knowledge about the fields specifications.

General features are:   Header supression,  field seperation,
unlimited number of  fields  and  filters,  reports up to 255
character wide,  user-defined  delimiters,  group sub-totals,
grand total,  supports string and numeric fields,  allows for
user-defined  numeric  masks,   left or right  justification,
constant fields, and many more features.

Usage of the utility consists of creating a report definition
file  which  sets  report options  (page length, file format,
delimiter,  etc.),   mapping  of  input to output fields, and
selection  criteria (filters).   Using redirection and pipes,
pipe  the input file into the program and redirect its output
wherever  you  like (whether it PRN, MORE, or a file) or not.
These report definition files can be easily created with the
included DefMaker utility.

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